Windows xp remove drivers completely

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. This isn't an answer. The "uninstall selected devices" in USBDeview does nothing different that the builtin Windows option to do this — krb The question also specifies no other software. It doesn't look like you read the question at all. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.

Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. But this piece of code is throwing an exception as it is not allowing me to set the access control programatically.

In a Windows XP machine manually I'm able to set this permission from registry editor. Is there an efficient way in XP by which I can remove the driver files completely? It's strange.

DifxAPI should remove both a the driver package from the driver store, b the installed instances of this driver. INF files or whatnot? I've lately wrote code to do just that: all my devices share the same custom device class so they were easy to enumerate, and then I blindly removed them following the code from devcon. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

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